Ep 5: Getting Started with Scleral Lenses

You’ll learn

• Brief overview of empirical vs diagnostic fitting

• Clinical indications for scleral lenses/the types of patients that would benefit from them

• Step-by-step process of the initial lens selection

• Insertion and removal tips

• Strategic ways to assess the lens with the slip lamp

• Common fit complications and how to address them

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Resources

• Scleral Lens Society - FREE membership

  • Scleral lens fit scales, lens care systems and handling tips, solutions/lens care info sheet

  • Insertion and removal video and sheet

  • And many more!!

• GPLI

  • MANY free archived webinars

  • Pocket guides, calculators, billing/coding

  • Again, many more!!

• Case report with photos

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Sources:

• Bibliography (downloadable word doc with links)

• Empirical vs diagnostic fitting

  • https://www.reviewofcontactlenses.com/article/gps-are-you-making-good-use-of-diagnostic-fitting-sets

• Hyperpigmentation with Latisse usage

  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/425906

• Scleral lens fitting: selecting and evaluating your initial lens

  • https://www.eyedolatryblog.com/2016/07/scleral-lens-fitting-selecting-and.html

• Lens flexure

  • https://www.reviewofoptometry.com/article/fighting-flexure

• Scleral lens complications

  • https://www.clspectrum.com/supplements/2017/october-2017/scleral-lenses-advanced-fitting,-design,-and-trou/scleral-contact-lens-complications

• Florida resident develops robot CL inserter/remover

  • https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/us/florida-man-contact-lens-robot-trnd/index.html

  • https://www.cliaraeyes.com/cliararobot

• Ares lens

  • https://ovitz.us/ares-lens/